Woman Condemned As Racist After Flinging Banana At Indigenous Player

A Port Adelaide fan had her AFL membership revoked for at least a year after she threw a banana at Indigenous star Eddie Betts.

Adelaide Football Club’s star player, the indigenous athlete Eddie Betts, had a banana thrown at him during a game of the Australian Football League.

The woman who flung the fruit at him, presumably a supporter of the rival Port Adelaide team, also made a rude hand gesture at the player as he and a group of team-mates celebrated a goal.

This seems like an obvious case of good ol’ racism that has proved to be a persistent and apparently insurmountable problem for Australian sports. Despite the racially motivated nature of the incident, the authorities are unwilling to label the crime as racism.

"We're investigating the incident, we've identified the person responsible," Port Adelaide Football Club Chairman David Kochsaid during a press conference. "In the interests of fairness we need to talk to the person responsible first."

AFL has banned the unidentified woman for a year. If her actions are proven to be incited by race, she will have her membership revoked for life.

This incident is not dissimilar to the racism many other indigenous players have been subjected to.